Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1887-08-17
DAKOTA NEWS

-GOv. Church has returned 70 DIS.
marck.
--Elkton, the gate city, 10 having
boom.
Sioux Falls claims to be ~ big . towr
a. Fargo.
There are six prisoners in the county
jail at Huron.
The Methodist church at Roscoe viii
have opera chairs.
1T is estimated that there are $1,000
soldiers in Dakota.
-Thrashing has commenced In the vi.
cinity Of Flandreau.
Timber in Bon Homme county IL quite
plentiful and growing nicely.
Pierre wants Fort Sully removed n
within q few miles Of that city.
Graders on the Northwestern Doland
extension are at work near Groton.
Miss Eva G.. Smith has been chosen
pricipal Of the Huron high school.
Ambrose w. Mullen has been ap-
pointed Postmaster at DeSmet.
The Aberdeen city council is consider
ing the matter Of street railways.
Rev. A. H. Clayton, of Mellette, has
accepted q call to Idaho Territory.
The dwelling house Of Elder MINIS, at
Northfeld, was struck by lightning.
Barnes county has bought $4,000
worth of gopher tails at 8 cents apiece.
"A hot wind struck Aberdeen the other
day and the thermometer went up to los.
-Ordway expects to build a church and
have it ready for occupancy November Is.
Il. L. Stanbury was arrested at Fps
wich, charged with an attempt to commit
rape.
Tho Manitoba officials say they have
not yet decided to extend from Browns
Valley.
Judge Spencer, of the Fifth district,
is in New York, where he will visit a
month.
A second. class limited rate Of 2 cents
Per mile has been made on the Northern
Pacific.
Delegate Clifford and family will rusti-
cate q few weeks on the shores Of Big
Stone Lake.
The harvest Of Brown county is thor
oughly under way and the wheat crop was
never better.
Grand Forks defeated Fargo at base
ball, the score standing five to four in favor
Of the former.
Henry Severn, IN extensive farmer
near jamestown, was struck by lightning
and instantly killed.
Gov. Church thinks President Cleve-
land will perhaps visit Dakota when he
makes his western trip.
"A car load of blooded stock has been
shipped from a noted stock farm in New
Jersey to Gary, Dakota.
Rev Enoch Powell, pastor of the First
Unitarian church of Topeka, Kansas, has
been preaching at Sioux Falls.
The consolidated Tank Line Company
are to put in a plant at Sioux Falls. The
cost will be nearly $50, ZOO.
-"Ordway" Johnson has been chosen
one Of the directors of the New England
colony in Hettinger County.
Gov. Church, Judge Spencer and
Auditor Ward purchased land at Huron to
make an addition, paying 5000.
The Black Hills Will send two car
pads of agricultural and mineral products
to the fairs at Lincoln and Omaha.
-Stutsman county is organized for the
fall campaign. A temperance mass meet
ing was recently held at jamestown.
Col. Launsbe ry, formerly of Bis
marck, has commenced the publication of
m evening daily at Duluth, the journal.
The average wages. of teachers per
month in Bon Homme county is $33. IL,
and the cost of tuition per month is $1.19
per scholar.
The temperance people at Bismarck
threaten to take the matter into the courts
if the county commissioners do not call a
local option election.
j. w. Holt, of Brown County, who is
now harvest ng his seventh crop of wheat,
estimates this years average at thirty BUSH
els per acre. In 1886 his average was if
teen bushels.
In Pembina County the commission
ers met to consider the question of order
ing a election on local option, and but
two Of the five members were present. No
action was taken.
The South Dakota's Investors Guide
is the name of a new monthly published at
Scotland. The initial number is filled
with statistics and valuable information
concerning Dakota.
In a Washington interview President
Cleveland is quoted as saying that Dakota
as one great state would establish o sort of
equilibrium balancing the great state of
Texas in the southwest.
The Sunday Argus, at Fargo, has
been running a theological discussion for
and against Universalism. Maj. Edwards
does not, however, decide the whole matter
by giving his editorial opinion.
The Aberdeen Republican has COM
menced its seventh volume. On the ground
where in the open air, it was first pub
lished, a three story brick building is being
built to be occupied by the Republican.
The total valuation of Minnehaha
county is 81, 600, 900. That of the city of
Sioux Falls 50, 712, 900. Fully 800, goo in
the city does not show up in the list, be-
ing manufactures exempted under special
laws.
u. B. Harrison, Of Philadelphia, has
arrived at Sisseton Agency. He m as
agent for the Indian Rights association to
see the land, Indian farming and the gen.
eral condition of the people. He will re-
main several days. From there he go g to
Devils Lake and thence to White Earth.
A special agent Of the interior department
is expected in a few days to make allot-
ments under the Indian severalty law.
The catalogue of the Dakota State
Normal School makes A GOOD ahowino for